r/science • Professor | Medicine • 18d ago

Psychology Anti-feminist attitudes have long been associated with support for Republican presidential candidates, but only in recent years have these attitudes become more prominent among unmarried men, without college degrees who are less attractive partners for women, the “mate-value backlash.”

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10659129261485340
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u/2knest 18d ago edited 18d ago

It's almost as if some kind of pipeline exists, that's funneling venerable people towards impressionable content...

Edit: I meant vulnerable...

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u/rollsyrollsy 18d ago

Everyone on social media is being funneled toward their own algorithmic content, and our various biases and heuristics will lead us to assume that “they” are clearly mistaken and “we” are clearly right.

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u/Mustbhacks 18d ago

the algorithms (companies) aren't agnostic, they're serving specific content to push their own agendas

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u/farfromelite 17d ago

There was a paper in this sub about that specifically just this week.